By Mabinty M. Kamara
Members, supporters and sympathisers of the All Peoples Congress (APC) Party on Sunday 19 September 2021 ended their national delegates conference in Makeni in the north with the adoption of the revised, constitution after an acrimonious intra-party court battle.
By politico staff writer
The ruling Sierra Leone People's Party has reportedly lost three of its senior members in Segbwena, eastern Sierra Leone in a road crash last Saturday night.
Two of the deceased according to constituency 008 chairman of SLPP Segbwena, Shengeh Jusu Jaka were delegates with voting rights.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Mohamed Tapeh alias Mollay, a petty trader has in a testimony told the court that a 12-year-old alleged victim of sexual penetration was his lover. Tapeh, 18 was standing trial before Magistrate Sahr Kekura at the Pademba Road Magistrate Court in Freetown for allegedly penetrating the girl on Sunday 21st April this year at Ascension Town Road in Freetown.
By Prince J Musa in Kenema
The Regional Manager East, Sierra Leone Water Company (SALWACO) Eng. Lansana Sawei has called for action by the government and residents of Kenema municipality for the protection of the gravity in the water catchment areas in the Kambui forest in Kenema against human activities that continue to pose threat to the facilities.
Engineer Sawei told Politico that the water gravity system that has been providing water to residents in Kenema has a treatment plant that uses a machine to transfer water to the reservoir.
By Politico Staff writer
Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance Dennis K. Vandi has assured the New European Union Ambassador and British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone of the commitment of the Government of Sierra Leone to Public Financial Management reforms to enhance transparency and accountability in the public sector. And to also continue to allocate more resources to pro-poor projects, human capital development, and the fight against COVID-19.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
Officials of All Peoples Congress (APC) Party will today 17th September 2021 meet in the northern headquarter town of Makeni to adopt their party’s repealed constitution that will take them to the 2023 elections. The conference will end on 19th September 2021.
This is after Justice Adrian Fisher of the High Court in Freetown on Monday 9th September 2021 ordered the party to conduct an emergency convention no later than 31st August this year.
By Umaru Fofana
For the first time since the founding of the South Africa-based DSTv (Digital Satellite Television) in 1995, a Sierra Leone television station is now among the channels.
The private-owned AYV (Africa Young Voices) TV station can now be watched on Channel 399.
According to a statement from the AYV, they have gone into an agreement with MULTICHOICE, the owners of DSTv, so as to “showcase Sierra Leone, its stories and its talents to Africa”.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
